Share 'A thumbs-up or thumbs-down sentence?'

I would appreciate a little nudge with the following sentence that, to me, reads ambiguously (i.e., is this a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down?) Source and era: From an 1821 Biographie Médicale:"Quelques notes de l'auteur ajoutent un faible prix a cette traduction."Is it: "A few of the author's notes add a bit of value to this translation," OR "The author's few notes add little [value] to this tanslati…